Klavs F. Jensen PhD

Klavs F. Jensen is Warren K. Lewis Professor and Head of the Chemical Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his chemical engineering education from the Technical University of Denmark (M.Sc.) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD). His research interests revolve around microfabrication, testing, and integration of microsystems for chemical and biological discovery, synthesis, and processing. Catalysis, chemical kinetics, and transport phenomena related to the processing of materials for biomedical, electronic, energy conversion, and optical applications are also topics of interest along with the development of simulation approaches for reactive chemical and biological systems, specifically simulation across multiple lengths and time scales. He is the co-author of more than 325 journal articles as well as several edited volumes and 30 US patents. He serves on advisory boards for universities, companies, professional societies, and governments. He is the recipient of several awards, including a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Allan P. Colburn, Charles C.M. Stine, R.H. Wilhelm, and W.H. Walker Awards of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Professor Jensen is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Science. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.